The University of Florida Warrington College of Business is in the spotlight for our latest installment of Real Humans: MBA Students.
Florida Warrington’s MBA Class of 2027 is a tight-knit, Florida-proud cohort with outsized range and a clear eye on ROI. To start, Mychal McLean, a UF alum who has literally gone supersonic after a decade in Air Force aviation and two years in homebuilding project management, returned to Gainesville to translate high-pressure leadership into strategy and business development in the defense sector. Bridge engineer John Williams, who helped deliver signature infrastructure from Miami to Corpus Christi, is layering finance and strategy onto his technical toolkit to pursue corporate development, investment banking, or strategy consulting. Then, after scaling a construction start-up and spending five years advising builders at a SaaS firm, Nate Rhondeau selected UF for its people-first culture and career coaching, aiming for a Fortune 500 leadership development program and a fast track to management.
Then we meet Army field artillery officer Evan Lowe, a former battalion-scale commander pivoting into the Army’s marketing enterprise, who picked Warrington for its academic rigor and family-friendly community. Emmy-paced news director and entrepreneur Kate Bennett is converting 15 years of live TV and small-business ingenuity into data-driven brand leadership in CPG or media, drawn by the program’s transformation track record and intimate cohort model. And consultant Ryan Anderson, fresh off eight months backpacking through Southeast Asia, returns home to Gator country to pivot from reporting to strategy and growth in tech or finance, while helping build inclusive spaces through Out@Warrington.
Get to know these new MBA students in the following pages.
